Saturday, March 4th, 2023
Special Edition: AI Chatbots May Change Everything
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It seems everyone is talking about the artificial intelligence chatbot Chat GPT. It launched a few months ago, and versions of it are now being used by companies like Microsoft and Snapchat. Other companies and individuals all over the world are figuring out if, how and when to incorporate this type of tech into what they do.
What does all this mean for us now and in the future? Today, we’re talking about how the chatbots actually work, why there have been reports of very strange, sometimes scary responses, and how this technology could be used later on for convenience and productivity – or – destruction and, not to be dramatic, but… the downfall of society. Here to explain it all is award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama.
Dr. Toyama's published research
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Guest: Kentaro Toyama, PhD
Kentaro Toyama is the W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information. He is a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and the author of “Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology.”
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